George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon (1735-1813) as a Boy
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1740
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1232 x 1105 mm (48 1/2 x 43 1/2 in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall (Children's Country House), Derbyshire
NT 653136
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon (1735-1813) as a Boy by Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), circa 1740. A full-length portrait of a young boy, seated, in a landscape, facing, head inclined slightly to the right, gazing at the spectator, wearing a brown coat and breeches and blue silver-embroidered waistcoat, a small white frilled collar, and white stockings, with a black dog by his side on the left who is tugging at the piece of cloth which the boys holds in his left hand. Distant horizon seen on the left. Son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, and his wife the Hon. Mary Howard. He was known as the 'Hunting Lord', he enjoyed exercising his hounds on the south lawn. He inherited Sudbury in 1780.
Provenance
Acquired from 10th Lord Vernon in lieu of death-duties after the death of Francis Lawrance William Venables-Vernon, 9th Lord Vernon (1889 -1963) and transferred to the National Trust in 1967 through the National Land Fund
Makers and roles
Thomas Hudson (Devonshire 1701 – Twickenham 1779), artist previously catalogued as attributed to British (English) School, artist